Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...
Despite the cut, Fleischmann said that durable goods would continue to roll off U.S. production lines "in most instances at levels never attained before 1949 and 1950." Even the pace-setting auto industry will not be as hard hit as many a Gloomy Gus had predicted...
...turned out 986,000 cars, v. 876,000 in 1950 (when the Chrysler strike cut production). Thus the steel cut-and the reductions in copper, aluminum, zinc and other metals-would still permit the industry to turn out plenty of cars. Automen and Government officials alike thought that the auto industry this year could make almost as many cars as it did in 1949, when 5,119,466 cars reached the market. Even the gloomiest of prophets placed output in 1951 at no fewer than 4,300,000 cars, more than 1948^ output...
Calm Air. Slick drummed up new trade (textiles, television and auto parts) and opened up new markets, flying Christmas mistletoe from Dallas to Manhattan, Texas okra to Detroit's big colony of Southern workers. Last year, after complaining to CAB that airmail-subsidized American and the big boys were still harassing his unsubsidized line, Slick slapped a $30 million suit on them, charging antitrust violations. After that, he says, they let him alone...
Dream Car. Buick's experimental "dream car," the two-seater convertible XP-300, was unveiled at Chicago's auto show last week. Designed by General Motors' Chief Engineer Charles A. Chayne, the car has an aluminum body only 39 inches high at the cowl (53.4 in. with the top up), blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture...